Tussen alle bosbranden, drinkwatertekorten en lage waterstanden is er ook goed nieuws deze zomer: Shell kondigt aan zeven nieuwe bomen te gaan planten. De oliegigant heeft namelijk het plan om één boom te planten voor iedere duurzame afdeling die het afstoot.

“We willen koploper zijn in het planten van een handjevol bomen”, zegt CEO van Shell Wael Sawan. Hij drukt de aarde aan rond zijn net geplante iep. De jonge iep compenseert de verkoop van de groene Indiase dochteronderneming van Shell, legt hij uit, de zoveelste zet in het terugdraaien van duurzame investeringen. “Het voelt goed om iets terug te kunnen doen. Niet minder dan normaal eigenlijk. We hebben als Shell toch een voorbeeldfunctie.”

Volgens Sawan zijn deze paar bomen nog maar het begin. “Wij stoppen niet tot het hier helemaal volstaat met bomen ter compensatie van opgeheven duurzame onderdelen. Shell wil een betere toekomst voor iedereen: een boom voor onze kleinkinderen én een hoger rendement voor onze aandeelhouders. Er is geen AEX B.”

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De adviseur van de president is soms net zo belangrijk als de president. In de tweede aflevering van de serie In de schaduw van de macht vertelt Michel het bijzondere verhaal van…

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Eva-Maria Westbroek (1970), een van Nederlands grootste sopranen, stopte vorig jaar met zingen om bioboer te worden. Maar masterclasses geeft ze nog wel. Deze week kwamen negen studenten samen in Mosset, een dorpje in de Franse Pyreneeën.

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Lamine Yamal vierde maandag zijn negentiende verjaardag. Zijn wens? „Winnen van Frankrijk”, zei hij tegenover zijn ploeggenoten nadat hij de kaarsjes had uitgeblazen.

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) have created what they describe as the world's most detailed 3D cellular atlas of the human brainstem, linking whole-brain MRI views to individual neurons across more than 500 tissue sections. The free online atlas, called Anchor, could help researchers better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, and SIDS by showing how healthy and diseased brain tissue differs cell by cell. The BBC reports: Built from high-resolution microscope images rather than costlier molecular techniques, it creates a detailed three-dimensional map of the brainstem, identifying more than 200 clusters of brain cells and nerve pathways. Eight chemical markers help distinguish different cell types, producing one of the clearest pictures yet of this vital, but poorly, understood part of the brain. The brainstem occupies only a sliver of the brain, yet it keeps people alive. It links the brain to the spinal cord and controls breathing, heartbeat, sleep, wakefulness and movement.

[...] Users can zoom from the whole brainstem seen on MRI down to individual neurons while maintaining their precise spatial relationships. The researchers have made the atlas freely available online, hoping it becomes a reference tool for neuroscientists, neurologists and neurosurgeons worldwide. Its applications could also extend well beyond anatomy. By comparing healthy brainstem maps with diseased tissue, scientists may better understand disorders ranging from Parkinson's disease and stroke to Alzheimer's disease and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). More precise maps could also help neurosurgeons navigate one of the brain's most delicate regions with greater confidence.

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NASA has performed a rocket switcheroo and will launch its SunRISE mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy instead of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur on which it was originally booked to fly. The mission is flying as a rideshare sponsored by the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command, which might go some way to explaining the decision to change the launch vehicle. In February, the fourth Vulcan Centaur flight experienced a booster anomaly during a US Space Force launch. The payload made it to orbit, but a burn-through of a Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) nozzle made the trip more eventful than planned. Space Force reportedly paused all national security launches on the Vulcan Centaur until the investigation was complete and appropriate corrective action taken. This left SunRISE in a pickle as it was due to launch on a Vulcan Centaur this summer, having completed its final prelaunch testing at the beginning of 2026. NASA said it "will share updated launch timing in the near future," although some time in 2027 seems a safe bet. There could be two Falcon Heavy launches in the remainder of 2026: one for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and another for Astrobotic's Griffin Mission One. Several US Space Force launches are planned for 2027, and SunRISE is likely to hitch a ride on one of them. SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) consists of six small satellites operating as one giant radio telescope slightly above geosynchronous orbit. The satellites will fly approximately 6 miles (10 kilometers) apart, and deploy four radio antennas each, extending 10 feet (2.5 meters). Construction of the six spacecraft was completed in 2023. According to NASA, "the six SmallSats will act as a single, giant radio telescope to capture in unprecedented detail data on the radio bursts associated with the Sun's particle storms." That's assuming the vehicles ever make it off the ground. The Vulcan Centaur launch was expected in summer 2026, but the switch to Falcon Heavy suggests NASA and the Space Force are hedging against further delays to Vulcan's return to national security launches. ®

"Can it run Linux?" has joined "Can it run Doom?" as the benchmark for coaxing unlikely hardware into doing complicated things. One enterprising engineer has now brought penguins to the Sega 32X. Fresh from wrangling Linux into life on the ill-fated Atari Jagua games console, a Spanish engineer calling himself cakehonolulu has performed the same trick with Sega's equally unsuccessful 32X and managed to run the operating system on hardware designed for gaming in the 1990s. The Sega 32X was an add-on for the Sega Genesis (also known in some regions as the Sega Mega Drive). Released in 1994, it arrived just in time to be steamrolled by Sony's PlayStation, who were also grappling with the launch of the Genesis's true successor, the Saturn. The 32X added 256 KB of SDRAM to the Genesis's 64 KB, 256 KB of video RAM, and a pair of Hitachi SH-2 CPUs running at 23 MHz. The Genesis made do with a Motorola 68000 running at 7.6 MHz. Linux supports the 68000 architecture, but "getting Linux to run on the SH-2s (running as in having it print anything meaningful over UART) required some brainstorm," the engineer noted in his post. Cakehonolulu told The Register that the challenges were "mostly a combination of things, but the major pushback is always how little memory you have to even begin to work with" - and even that is halved, as each framebuffer needs its own share, leaving little to work with. "In practice, this means that you can cram very little stuff (In terms of Linux kernel features and/or Busybox; which serves as the init process for the system once Linux has finished the boot process)." Eventually, Linux booted. But then there was symmetric multiprocessing (SMP). After all, the 32X has two SH-2s… Cakehonolulu told us, "I also wanted to investigate how feasible it would be to run SMP on the configuration of the 32X since it doesn't really have some of the hardware primitives we're used up to using for multi-processor synchronization and akin. Turns out it was something that could be done; but again, performance is abysmal." In his post he added, "But it does work – and that's fine by me." Cakehonolulu then wrote a simple console display driver, completing the port (after a fashion). We wondered if a keyboard had been considered. "I actually tried to track down any commercially-available keyboard for the Mega Drive/Genesis but all I could find were some early-prototypes. I'm not really sure if something did ever come out officially but I chose not to go down that rabbit hole," he said. "You could technically try to come up with some sort of Pi Pico/ATMega/Arduino/FPGA board that enabled a PS/2 or USB keyboard to transmit data to the console but I felt like it was a bit beyond what I was really willing to do to get any form of interaction w/it)." So interaction is limited to the TTL UART pins, which, considering the feat of getting Linux booting at all, is fair enough. And then there's what to do with the system once booted. Can it do much? "Honestly, not much, not with the limitations it has at least. We're lucky we can even add a few more kilobytes worth of data... But it serves as a good example (Linux and Busybox) that you can indirectly let people tinker and bringup a piece of software if it's well-written … it enables stuff like this to happen. "Not that I envision anyone using it but I just enjoy the process of tinkering." What's next? "Sega Saturn : )" Hurrah for tinkerers everywhere, motivated by that age-old justification: "because it's there". ®

The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users' entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a server-side change. Elon Musk has separately promised that all previously uploaded user data will be deleted. AI safety researcher Cereblab published a report on Sunday about their investigation into Grok Build, SpaceXAI's command-line interface (CLI), and the data exchanged between the CLI and SpaceXAI's servers. Cereblab found that when Grok Build reads or processes a file, the contents of that file are transmitted without redaction to a Google Cloud Storage bucket used by SpaceXAI. Further, they claimed that Grok Build packages entire repos and uploads them as Git bundles, instead of just uploading the files required to answer a user's prompt. According to Cereblab's report, SpaceXAI's data retention went far beyond that of other CLIs, such as Claude Code, Gemini, and Codex, which open individual files rather than entire repos before uploading them along with their Git histories. The researcher tested the behavior using a benign prompt. They instructed the CLI to simply reply with "OK," and specifically ordered it not to open any files. Grok Build uploaded the entire repo regardless, along with its full Git history containing secrets that were deleted months prior – a finding Cereblab reproduced using a separate repo. Other Grok Build users reported similar results after Cereblab published their report, including one whose entire user directory, containing SSH keys, password manager databases, and more, was opened and uploaded. The findings attracted enough attention for SpaceXAI execs and Musk to comment on them publicly, as well as prompting the company to quickly implement a remedy. Cereblab confirmed that after the CLI's devs set disable_codebase_upload to "true," Grok Build stopped transmitting entire repos to its servers. The confirmation came hours after SpaceXAI weighed in, trying to reassure onlookers that Grok Build remained safe for use, especially in enterprise environments. A public statement issued via X said that Grok Build respects customers who enable zero data retention (ZDR), and for those who haven't enabled it, such as non-enterprise customers, running a quick command deletes all data previously collected on a given user. "We care deeply about your privacy and respect customer choice," SpaceXAI said. "For teams using zero data retention, no trace and code data is ever retained. All API key use of Grok Build also respects ZDR. "If ZDR is disabled, the /privacy command is available in the CLI to disable data retention, which also deletes previously synced data. "Run the /privacy command to view or change your settings at any time." Technical staff members Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg both repeated the company's assurances, responding to outraged techies before Musk himself chimed in with a trademark "true." Musk promised that the business would delete all user data uploaded to it prior to the code change preventing whole-repo uploads. "As a precautionary measure, all user data that was uploaded to SpaceXAI before now will be completely and utterly deleted," he said, responding to Milich's community outreach. "Zero anything whatsoever will remain." In a separate post, Musk asked users to keep sharing data anyway, despite the disclosure that his company had been caught hoovering up entire user repos, on the basis that retaining "some" data helps with debugging. The Register cannot independently verify whether SpaceXAI has deleted the data as promised. However, Grok Build no longer rips user repos and stores them in the cloud, although Cereblab is still unhappy about the company's recommendation to use the /privacy command to adjust how exposed user code is to data retention measures. "What actually stopped the upload was a silent global flag – disable_codebase_upload: true – that applies whether you opt in or out," they wrote. "/privacy is a per-session retention toggle, not the switch that fixed this, so it shouldn't be pointed to as the control. And no developer should have to run an opt-out after every session to keep their own code off someone else's servers. The right default is off." ®

Het is eigenlijk een alleraardigst clubje maar er zitten altijd rotte appels, soms op fatbikes, tussen die het verpesten voor de rest. We bedoelen uiteraard de politie. Gelukkig zit daar ook Mahasin bij, wijkagente te Amsterdam, geen rotte appel maar wel een uiterst vrolijke dadel die we kennen van haar ontroering over de Rode Lijn-demo en die afgelopen weken furore maakte door haar enthousiasme over de gezelligheid in de grote steden rond de successen van Marokko op het WK voetbal. Gezellig was het namelijk, en haalt een krant het in zijn hoofd om te schrijven dat het toch niet zo gezellig was dan gebruikt ze haar officiële politie-account op Instagram om die krant eventjes op de vingers te tikken en het échte verhaal te tonen. Net zoals wanneer Geert Wilders iets gemeens over Allah zegt op X, ook dan klimt ze in de politiepen. Puik werk en dat bleef niet onopgemerkt in de Marokkaanse gemeenschap, in zoverre zelfs dat de deugdiender in een Marokko-shirtje werd geïnterviewd op de Marokkaanse staatstelevisie. Een hele grote eer, aldus de vleesgeworden politie-iftar. Mooi dat het blijkbaar allemaal kan!

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Al sinds Meindert Tjoelker hebben we in dit land met z'n allen zo'n grote bek over 'zinloos geweld', maar zo'n incident als te zien in bovenstaande video geeft wel weer aan dat we qua opgefoktheid nog een paar treden láger op de samenspelensamendelen-ladder zijn gaan staan met z'n 'allen'. Geen peuk willen geven aan een opgefokte minderjarige broerroeper en dan meteen een paar tanden uit je bek gerost krijgen. Het gebeurde natuurlijk weer in Stad van de Hoop Teringzooi Amsterdam, waar ze er nu al jaren prat op gaan dat iedereen zo lief is, maar waar onschuldige mensen die lekker met zichzelf bezig zijn bijna dagelijks op hun kop worden getimmerd door achterlijk uitschot. Misschien dat we de SCHANDPAAL maar weer eens moeten invoeren, zetten we deze kerel met z'n kop door dat ding op de Dam, voeren we 'm wat doosjes rotte eieren en kijken of z'n vrindjes de volgende keer dan hetzelfde krankzinnige gedrag vertonen.

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